Tech hiring in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

What hiring looks like in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY right now: 175 distinct openings, the skills they require, the occupations behind them, the seniority mix, what those roles earn locally, and who is doing the hiring.

The market in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

175 distinct openings
48% remote-flagged

Openings are distinct reqs (near-duplicate postings deduped), not raw posting counts. Located developers is a GitHub-profile supply signal, not a hire count.

Top required skills

Share of this metro's openings that require each skill (hard requirements only).

rest-api19%sql19%java18%oracle16%javascript15%python14%aws12%html12%css11%ci-cd9.7%plsql9.7%git9.1%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 94 54%
Database Architects (15-1243) 14 8%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 13 7%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 9 5%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 8 5%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 8 5%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 7 4%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 6 3%
Database Administrators (15-1242) 5 3%
Web Developers (15-1254) 4 2%

Seniority mix

How the metro's seniority-tagged openings split by level.

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 132 75%
Mid 35 20%
Junior 3 2%
Principal 3 2%
Staff 2 1%

What roles earn here

Median annual earnings from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics — employer-reported payroll for people already in these jobs, not the pay advertised on current openings. Highest median first.

OccupationP25MedianP75Employed
Computer and Information Research Scientists $166,040 $181,990 $184,620 200
Computer and Information Systems Managers $127,820 $158,250 $198,150 2,180
Software Developers $96,890 $127,910 $161,120 3,280
Computer Network Architects $88,710 $121,000 $139,170 430
Database Architects $88,180 $108,730 $144,990 150
Information Security Analysts $84,140 $103,890 $132,910 470
Database Administrators $65,000 $102,160 $117,860 400
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers $81,120 $100,690 $126,340 430
Web and Digital Interface Designers $68,340 $99,210 $130,240 310
Data Scientists $77,330 $98,940 $129,030 830

Estimates, not a census, and BLS publishes no margin of error for the percentiles — see our methodology. Pay for one occupation across every metro, with its own page per area, is on the salary pages.

Who's hiring

Employers with openings here, alphabetically. Each opening is credited to the real employer on its canonical posting, so aggregator and staffing-agency mirrors are attributed to the actual hirer rather than the reposter. This is a sample of who is hiring, not a ranking and not a complete list. Each name opens one of that employer's postings here — a sample of their hiring in this metro, not all of it.

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